Abductions Stories
He pointed to cases where government officials have struggled to provide clear information on the whereabouts of Kenyans detained by a neighbouring co...
The order follows an urgent application filed by Mbijiwe’s mother, Jane Gatwiri, who sought judicial intervention to compel the government to immediat...
Police in Nairobi blocked human rights activists from storming Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi’s office as they demanded answers over the alleged...
Rights organisations in Kenya are sounding the alarm over the deteriorating health of activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were abducted in Kamp...
The report also documented multiple cases of enforced disappearances and killings. In July 2024, Chadema official Dioniz Kipanya vanished after leavin...
Mbijiwe's family is seeking orders requiring top state security agencies to account for his whereabouts, four years after he disappeared under mysteri...
The blogger's latest application comes after Justice Chacha Mwita, on September 16, 2025, declined to grant similar orders sought by his lead counsel,...
The Uganda Police, however, have since refuted claims that the two activists are in state custody. During a press briefing, ACP Rusoke Kituuma said th...
In a statement read by representatives of the three organisations and family spokesperson Nobert Ochieng, they said eyewitness accounts indicate the t...
In July 2025, Kenyan activist Mwabili Mwagodi was abducted in Tanzania, while in May 2025, Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire were also kidnapped an...
In a statement dated October 3, 2025, the Commission said it had requested Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to coordinate with local authorities t...
Njagi and Oyoo, who had joined NUP presidential candidate Bobi Wine’s campaign on Tuesday, were reportedly forced into a vehicle and had their phones...
Authorities, however, have offered little reassurance. Lamu County Commissioner Wesley Koech told journalists he was unaware of any security operation...
The two accuse the Kenyan Government of colluding with Ugandan authorities in a covert operation that violated their rights and undermined Kenya's sov...
The five chiefs, drawn from Wargadud East, Qurahmudow, and Chachabole administrative units, were abducted in February by suspected members of the outl...
The family claims the children were forced into a waiting vehicle by heavily armed men believed to be police officers and driven to an unknown locatio...
Mwenda Mbijiwe was reportedly last seen in Roysambu, Nairobi, in the company of individuals believed to be officers from the Directorate of Criminal I...
Senior Principal Magistrate Robinson Ondieki released the MP on a cash bail of Sh100,000.
In a statement released on Thursday, ULS President Isaac K. Ssemakadde said Mbobu’s death was “not merely a loss to the legal fraternity but a grievou...
The findings show that a clear plurality of Kenyans, 35 per cent, believe the police and other state security agencies are mainly responsible for extr...
They added that several of the hostages were later freed after ransom payments were arranged through local intermediaries.
DCI dismissed the claims a day after Otsieno Namwaya, the Associate Director of Human Rights, spoke to The Eastleigh Voice about his alleged harassmen...
In a statement, the group urged courts to fast-track cases related to police accountability, including petitions seeking reparations for victims of ab...
Speaking exclusively to The Eastleigh Voice on Monday, Namwaya alleged he was facing harassment and intimidation because of his work.
LSK President Faith Odhiambo said lawyers pursuing matters of public interest had increasingly become the greatest targets in what she described as po...
The UN General Assembly resolved to earmark this day on December 21, 2010, following deep concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disapp...
Lawyer Kato Tumusiime said Besigye and his co-accused, Obeid Lutale, had given "clear instructions" to their legal team not to appear before Justice B...
Kibera Law Courts rejected an application by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (...
Through lawyer Stephen Musili, the petitioners allege that more than 80 people were killed and several others abducted during the 2024–2025 protests....
